Kawaguchi in Japan has done the same, andWhile I'm not there yet, I can see how better storage methodology, diet change and year-round growing will alter my perspective of including animals in the cycle here. Right now, it is also our safe back up of food source year-round not just fertilizer source.
soil scientist Michael Melendrez in New Mexico has devised a competely
vegan product called "Protein Crumblies": that delivers glycoproteins
(protein/carbohydrate) to the colonies of microbes that benefically
"infect" plant roots to shuttle nutrients back and forth. Vegan farming
is good for entirely pragmitic reasons--it works! No animals need apply.
Welcome to the age of "stock-free": farming.
I am glad to see a subclass of natural farmers headed in the more
elegant and safer direction of veganic farming. Gardens are certainly
part of the food web, and the microbes, worms, and other creepy crawlies
endemic to this werb are welcome, but we don't need the horses, cows,
and other big-manure animals or even the medium size ones like ducks and
chickens to make our gardens work.
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